All Style and No Substance? Uzbekistan’s Rebranding is Hollow without Human Rights
All Style and No Substance? Uzbekistan’s Rebranding is Hollow without Human Rights By Matthew Schaaf (This op-ed was originally published in The Diplomat on July 1, 2021) Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister, Abdulaziz Kamilov, embarked on week-long trip to the United States...
India: UN Declares Detention of Human Rights Activist GN Saibaba to be a Violation of International Law
Washington, D.C. – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has found the Government of India violated international human rights law by imprisoning academic and human rights activist G.N. Saibaba. Responding to a legal petition filed by Freedom Now and...
Designations of “Undesirable Organizations” by Russia Must End
In a joint statement, forty human rights NGOs from across the OSCE region denounce the continuing inclusion of foreign civil society organisations in the list of so-called “undesirable” organizations by Russia. This “harms international people-to-people contacts...